Publishing Principles

MIRATOR publishes articles and book reviews according to the same principles as the traditional scholarly journals. The Editorial Board asks two referees (usually with PhD´s in relevant subjects) to read and comment on the received article manuscript, its merits and suitability for publication, within 30 - 90 days. The identity of the writer is not revealed to the referees and vice versa. After having received the referees´ comments the Editorial Board contacts the writer in order to discuss the potential revisions in his or her essay. The Editorial Board archives all referee statements, article manuscript versions and correspondence pertaining to articles accepted for publication, and keeps a list of the authors, titles and referees of rejected articles.

Depending on the volume of submissions, Mirator publishes one to two issues per year, one in early autumn, one possibly in the beginning of the year.

Publishing in Mirator is free, there are no article processing charges; nor do we charge for submitting articles for review. When the approved, edited and proofread texts have been published, their contents cannot be altered nor removed. The contributors are naturally welcome to treat their topics in new articles. Unfortunately, MIRATOR cannot pay any remunerations for the published contributions.

MIRATOR is a scholarly Open Access journal. This means that all content is freely available immediately upon publication free of charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Mirator is published (since 2007) by Glossa - The Finnish Society for Medieval Studies, a member of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. In the past, the journal, under its previous editor in chief, docent Marko Lamberg, PhD, was edited at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnography, and received financial support from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Jyväskylä and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. MIRATOR´s conference activities have been supported by the Cultural Foundation for Finland and Sweden as well as Letterstedtska föreningen.

Mirator c/o Glossa ry.
Kirkkokatu 6
00170 Helsinki

Mirator c/o Glossa ry.
Kirkkokatu 6
00170 Helsinki
Finland